Aginst gay marriage

Judaism, like Christianity, reflects differing views between conservative and liberal adherents. The millennia-long debate in Hindu society, somewhat suppressed in the colonial period, has revived. It is one of the sixteen precepts accepted by all Zen Buddhist monks, nuns and seriously committed lay people. I told them that as a Christian that I could not prepare their taxes. Some religious arguments against same-sex marriage are based upon Old Testament biblical passages such as Genesis While self-identified theological liberal organizations such as the Religious Society of Friends Quakerssupport same-sex marriage, other more conservative and or orthodox organizations including some Mennonite churches, the Church of the Brethrenthe Old Catholic Church[20] and the Church of Sweden [21] also support marriage rights for gay and lesbian persons. Religion and Same-Sex Marriage.

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LGBT topics and Buddhism. Marriage law has long been a state matter, and in the United States that has meant, literally, a state rather than a federal matter. But, of course, since legal declarations cannot turn reality into something it cannot become, a variety of conundrums, contradictions, and anomalies will inevitably arise. The vast majority of them the Guardian has spoken to in recent weeks have said they will vote no on Sunday. She concluded her book by calling for not only the decriminalisation of homosexuality in India, but also its 'full and complete acceptance' by the heterosexual population so that the Indian homosexual may lead a dignified and secure life. He said that same-sex lovers must have been cross-sex lovers in a former life. If this happens, we will need to pay close attention to the consequences.

At the United States Unitarian Universalist General Assemblydelegates voted overwhelmingly that they would perform same-sex marriage ceremonies, and the church has been performing weddings with and without state sanction ever since. It is a version of an appeal for the protection of free speech, and in this case it is a demand that the speech of particular persons carry the authority to define the structure of reality without regard to the basis of past legal judgments. Archived from the original on October 11, Under a literalist reading, the Bible can be read as condemning homosexuality and, by extension, gay marriage. Due to the ambivalent language about homosexuality in Buddhist teachings, there has been no official stance put forth regarding the issue of marriage between members of the same gender. The Roman Catholic Church argues from a theological perspective against recognizing same-sex unions. The appeal now being made for homosexual marriage rights is not an appeal for judges and lawmakers to reconsider past empirical judgments about similarities and differences between heterosexual and homosexual relationships.